{{short description|Plantation house in Stoneville, North Carolina}} {{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox building | name = Mulberry Island Plantation | image = Mulberry Island Plantation.jpg | image_size = 200px | image_caption = side view of the house | alternate_names = Penn Farm | status = | cancelled = | building_type = residence | architectural_style = | location = | address = | location_city = Stoneville, North Carolina | location_country = US | coordinates = {{coord|36.4101|-79.8618|display=inline,title}} | altitude = | current_tenants = | namesake = | groundbreaking_date = | architect = }}
'''Mulberry Island''', also known as the '''Penn Farm''', is a historic plantation house in Stoneville, North Carolina near the Dan River. The home was once the seat of the Scales family and the Settle family, two prominent North Carolinian political dynasties. The house was part of a 1,298 acre plantation.
== History == Mulberry Island was a large plantation located along the Dan River in Rockingham County, near Stoneville and Leaksville.<ref name= usg/> The house was built by Nathaniel Scales (1756–1824) and his wife, who was a niece of Colonial Governor Josiah Martin.<ref name=usg>{{cite web |url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/rockingham/history/other/dan1.txt |title= Info |website= files.usgwarchives.net|access-date=2020-07-30}}</ref> It faces south, looking down on the river valley.<ref name= usg/> The plantation sat on 1,298 acres.<ref name= usg/> Scales left Mulberry Island to his son, Alfred Moore Scales, upon his death.<ref name= lib>{{Cite journal|url=https://lib.digitalnc.org/record/10185#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&r=0&xywh=-698,0,6673,3578|title=Mulberry Island, Side|date=July 30, 1982|journal=Images of North Carolina |editor1=Rothrock, Si |editor2=Carter, Bob }}</ref> It adjoined Deep Springs Plantation on the Dan River, which was home to another one of Nathaniel Scales' sons, James Madison Scales.<ref name= lib/> Nathaniel Scales' daughter inherited another nearby farm, High Rock Farm.<ref name= lib/> In the 1850s the plantation came into the Settle family.<ref name= usg/> It was the home of North Carolina Supreme Court Associate Justice and United States Minister to Peru, Thomas B. Settle II.<ref name= usg/><ref name= lib/> After the Settles, the plantation was owned by the Trogden family and then by John Moore.<ref name= usg/> In 1930 the farm was purchased by Charlie Penn of Reidsville, North Carolina who remodeled the house, adding a large porch and other additions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/rockcc_histcoll/3217579415/|title=Mulberry Island|date=January 22, 2009|via=Flickr}}</ref><ref name= lib/> Edrington Penn sold the home to Horner Grogan, who leased it to his son Wendell Grogan.<ref name= usg/> The Grogan family sold the plantation to Charles Stone of Kinston for $130,000.<ref name= usg/>
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Category:Greek Revival houses in North Carolina Category:Houses in Stoneville, North Carolina Category:Plantation houses in North Carolina Category:Settle family residences Category:Scales family residences